Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-02 01:29, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0200, Dirk wrote: Hello, i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like HAL shouldn't be enforced in Linux. Disable HAL in Xorg on Debian / Ubun

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-02 01:02, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] I think it is the UUID's. Long character identifiers for partitions, that require a specific process to find what is the UUID for a partition, then it has to be entered, in a different syntax, to have logical drives automatically mounted, on bootu

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >>> The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is >>> that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for > removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like HAL shouldn't be enforced > in Linux. > > > Disable HAL in Xorg on Debian / Ubuntu > > http://www.larsen-b.com

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Bret Busby skrev: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: The source of information that led me to believe that Debian requires java, is, on the web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html , where it states "2.7. Java now in Debian The OpenJDK

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-01 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:20 +0200, "Sylvain Le Gall" wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> > > >> > >> You can try using "curl http://.../Packages..."; from the machine > >> hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is > >> happening (I say curl because

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and my experience with using .tar.gz files for installing software, rat

Re: vim linebreaks in Mutt

2009-08-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:01:49PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > > What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim), > > without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for > > instance, is not one long line of text, but rather several s

Re: vim linebreaks in Mutt

2009-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Rob Owens writes: > What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim), > without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for > instance, is not one long line of text, but rather several shorter lines of > text). > > I currently have this in .muttrc: > > set e

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is > that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and my > experience with using .tar.gz files for installing software, rather > than .deb packages, is that the .ta

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that Debi

vim linebreaks in Mutt

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim), without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for instance, is not one long line of text, but rather several shorter lines of text). I currently have this in .muttrc: set editor="vim -c 'set wrapmargin=5'"

Re: (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:21:33 -0400 Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Leonardo Gaudino wrote: > > > I experience the same problem (only difference is nautilus:3645, > > whatever it means...). A pop-up message appears while loading the > > session showing that phrase. The strange

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45:43AM +0100, AG wrote: > Hi > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able > to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and > in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be > subject to br

Re: Installing openjdk6 package on ARM embedded system

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 20:09, fred basset wrote: Hi All, I have an ARM based single board PC running Debian etch, the default configuration supplied by the manufacturer. I want to try running the OpenJDK6 JRE package on this board. I did a search for this package at packages.debian.org and it stated I c

Re: Back up routines

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:48:17PM +0100, AG wrote: > Generally I have relied on the separate partitioning of my /home > directory as some measure of protection against hosing my system through > pebkac-type activities, but this is not necessarily the most reliable of > options and certainly

Installing openjdk6 package on ARM embedded system

2009-08-01 Thread fred basset
Hi All, I have an ARM based single board PC running Debian etch, the default configuration supplied by the manufacturer. I want to try running the OpenJDK6 JRE package on this board.  I did a search for this package at packages.debian.org and it stated I could download it from deb http://security

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-08-02 01:13:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The proposed solution involves the script[1]: > > ,[ external-reply.sh ] > | #!/bin/sh > | DRAFT="$1" > | cp "$DRAFT" "$DRAFT.tmp" > | ( > | xterm -e "exec mutt -H \"$DRAFT.tmp\"" > | sleep 1 > | rm -f "$DRAFT.tmp" > | ) & > | >

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 17:13, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,01.Aug.09, 16:06:08, Chris Jones wrote: http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-users/msg14344.html The mutt-user archive seems to be broken - if you display this message and try to display the thread index, it does display an index but t

Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list)

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 11:23, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,30.Jul.09, 16:13:08, Ron Johnson wrote: When's the last time you tried Xfce? A long time, mainly because I've seen complaints about unfixed memory leaks. $ uptime 19:15:58 up 4 days, 10:47, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.10, 0.09 $ free

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:13:31PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,01.Aug.09, 16:06:08, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-users/msg14344.html > > > > The mutt-user archive seems to be broken - if you display this message > > and try to display the thread

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 06:13:31PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,01.Aug.09, 16:06:08, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-users/msg14344.html > > > > The mutt-user archive seems to be broken - if you display this message > > and try to display the thread

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-01 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson : > On 2009-08-01 08:31, Ian L. Target wrote: > [snip] > > That is what the lawn is for. ;) > > Dud, I think your TMI alarm is broken. Three Mile Island alarm?!? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-01 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> > >> >> You can try using "curl http://.../Packages..."; from the machine >> hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is >> happening (I say curl because approx use curl). If the problem is at the >> download level, there is pr

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-01 Thread whollygoat
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:53 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" wrote: > On 29-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" > > wrote: > >> On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > >> wrote: > >> > I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on > >>

radeon tv-out (RV505)

2009-08-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i tried to get the tv-out working for my radeon X1550 64-bit graphics controller, but so far i failed. xrandr lists the S-video output and even detects it as connected when X is started with the option ATOMTVOut set to true for the radeon video driver. but i don't see anything on the tv sc

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,01.Aug.09, 16:06:08, Chris Jones wrote: > > http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-users/msg14344.html > > The mutt-user archive seems to be broken - if you display this message > and try to display the thread index, it does display an index but there > is no trace of this particula

kdebluetooth4 in Debian squeeze

2009-08-01 Thread mertress
Hi! Is there anybody with working kdebluetooth4 on Debian squeeze? I tried to build from kdebluetooth4-0.3 release tarball from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kdebluetooth4?content=84761but had build errors. Then I tryed to download from svn. That needs libknotificationitem-1, so I i

Re: sftp with chroot?

2009-08-01 Thread Eugene Apolinary
I'm trying #!/bin/bash apt-get install scponly dpkg-reconfigure scponly # Select: Yes cd /usr/share/doc/scponly/setup_chroot gunzip setup_chroot.sh.gz sh setup_chroot.sh # Just use default settings Ok, now I: echo "">/var/log/auth.log Then try to log in: sftp scpo...@localhost Conn

Re: Installing via NFS - I think?

2009-08-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:37 PM, AG wrote: > Hi all > > I'm happy to follow up with the relevant reading, but I want some help in > defining the question so that I know what it is that I am looking at: > > I have an old laptop that runs Slackware 10.1 and its CD-R is kaput, and > Slackware 10.1 was

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:39:10AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,29.Jul.09, 18:47:55, Chris Jones wrote: > > > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible > > to view more than one message at a time - you actually have to fire up a > > second instance of mutt to

Installing via NFS - I think?

2009-08-01 Thread AG
Hi all I'm happy to follow up with the relevant reading, but I want some help in defining the question so that I know what it is that I am looking at: I have an old laptop that runs Slackware 10.1 and its CD-R is kaput, and Slackware 10.1 was not, at the time that I ran it, configured for USB

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux and that same file gets printed perfectly

Re: java-gcj installation bug

2009-08-01 Thread Fred
On Sunday 12 July 2009 16:16:07 David Baron wrote: > Setting up java-gcj-compat-headless (1.0.80-5.1) ... > update-alternatives: error: alternative rmiregistry can't be master: it is > a slave of java > dpkg: error processing java-gcj-compat-headless (--configure): > subprocess installed post-inst

Re: sftp with chroot?

2009-08-01 Thread Josh Kelley
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Eugene Apolinary wrote: > - Only an sftp server > - Some users may log in by ssh (with openssh-server), some users can only > use sftp > - Important! - Chroot! Users using sftp must only see e.g.: their home > directory, or better: a folder in it. > - Under Debian Le

sftp with chroot?

2009-08-01 Thread Eugene Apolinary
Hi I want to make an sftp server - Only an sftp server - Some users may log in by ssh (with openssh-server), some users can only use sftp - Important! - Chroot! Users using sftp must only see e.g.: their home directory, or better: a folder in it. - Under Debian Lenny Is there any good, sec

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Jude, relax and take your time to read and It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered) On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer". On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:2

Re: Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-01 20:13 +0200, Eric Spreen wrote: >> Install the firmware-ralink package from non-free and the kernel >> should >> pick the right driver (if available) automagically. > > Well, that's apparently the problem, because the kernel doesn't. Even if > I load the correct module (rt2870sta, t

Re: Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-01 Thread Eric Spreen
> Install the firmware-ralink package from non-free and the kernel > should > pick the right driver (if available) automagically. Well, that's apparently the problem, because the kernel doesn't. Even if I load the correct module (rt2870sta, that is) using modprobe, the device doesn't work properl

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Re: (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Leonardo Gaudino wrote: I experience the same problem (only difference is nautilus:3645, whatever it means...). A pop-up message appears while loading the session showing that phrase. The strangest is that everything does work fine. This happens only at the first

Re: Mail transfer agent and Active Directory

2009-08-01 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Saturday 01 August 2009 05:04:09 pm pch0317 wrote: > Hello > I have 150 users in my network. I want to change MsExchange to open MTA. > > 1. Is there any open MTA which cooperate with Active Directory or > eDirectory? I don't want to create 150 user account. I would like to it > still work even

Re: Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,01.Aug.09, 15:50:56, Eric Spreen wrote: > Hello all, > > First of all, I'm not exactly a Linux guru, so please don't be too > harsh ;) Neither am I (a guru) ;) > I have recently bought a wireless USB NIC: The Linksys by Cisco WUSB54GC > version 3. I would like to use it on a Debian syste

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,30.Jul.09, 16:13:08, Ron Johnson wrote: > >When's the last time you tried Xfce? > > A long time, mainly because I've seen complaints about unfixed > memory leaks. $ uptime 19:15:58 up 4 days, 10:47, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.10, 0.09 $ free total used free

Re: ext4 stable enough to entrust it with data?

2009-08-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.07.09 21:59, lee wrote: > Well, I could live with that. But I just went with ext4 for the new > disks and made a new FS on /tmp to "convert" it to ext4. At some time > I might convert /var to ext4. Unless I needed a really big /tmp, I've been using /tmp on tmpfs for years (mfs on FreeBSD, tm

Re: compile error - missing X11 headers

2009-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Aug 01 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-01 02:49, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >> After a rather lengthy break from compiling my own programs, I'm trying >> to build fvwm, > > Is the Debian repository too out-of-date? Nope. We have the latest release, + changes cherry picked from

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 08:31, Ian L. Target wrote: [snip] That is what the lawn is for. ;) Dud, I think your TMI alarm is broken. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 08:50, Eric Spreen wrote: Hello all, First of all, I'm not exactly a Linux guru, so please don't be too harsh ;) The proper attitude always helps. I have recently bought a wireless USB NIC: The Linksys by Cisco WUSB54GC version 3. I would like to use it on a Debian system. I ha

Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-01 Thread Eric Spreen
Hello all, First of all, I'm not exactly a Linux guru, so please don't be too harsh ;) I have recently bought a wireless USB NIC: The Linksys by Cisco WUSB54GC version 3. I would like to use it on a Debian system. I have found some docs telling me that I should use the Ralink rt73usb driver, beca

Re: Mail transfer agent and Active Directory

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:34:09PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: > Hello > I have 150 users in my network. I want to change MsExchange to open MTA. > > 1. Is there any open MTA which cooperate with Active Directory or > eDirectory? I don't want to create 150 user account. I would like to it > still work e

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Jude, relax and take your time to read and It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered) On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer". On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:2

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints > garbage on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text > file on Linux and that same file gets printed perfectly when done > with a real dos computer? Po

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Jude, relax and take your time to read and It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered) On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer". On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:2

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dirk [2009 Aug 01 06:06 -0500]: > Hello, > > i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for > removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like HAL shouldn't be enforced > in Linux. > > > Disable HAL in Xorg on Debian / Ubuntu > > http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/341.html

Mail transfer agent and Active Directory

2009-08-01 Thread pch0317
Hello I have 150 users in my network. I want to change MsExchange to open MTA. 1. Is there any open MTA which cooperate with Active Directory or eDirectory? I don't want to create 150 user account. I would like to it still work even when Active Directory password change (password change every mont

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Allen Meyers
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-01 13:07 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, >>> reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking >>> u

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-01 13:07 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: > [snip] >> >> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, >> reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking >> using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I ha

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: > Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading > the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the > package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that > Debian 5.0 excludes Iceape and Seamonkey,

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that Debian 5.0 excludes Iceape and Seamonkey,

HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-01 Thread Dirk
Hello, i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like HAL shouldn't be enforced in Linux. Disable HAL in Xorg on Debian / Ubuntu http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/341.html Disable automatic polling of CD/DVD-ROM drives to s

Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. It's quite probable that this is just a configuration issue. What is your configuration?

Re: kdm font problems

2009-08-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 01 August 2009 10:40:42 Matthew Moore, vous avez écrit : > Hello, > > I rebooted today and noticed a font issue with the kdm login screen. The > greeting and fail messages use the correct font, but the font for > everything else is some ugly default font. > > I have tried changing the c

Re: (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Leonardo Gaudino
I experience the same problem (only difference is nautilus:3645, whatever it means...). A pop-up message appears while loading the session showing that phrase. The strangest is that everything does work fine. This happens only at the first login: if i terminate the session and login again no errors

Aug 1 & 16- Global VOIP Free SW HW Culture meeting, BerkeleyTIP, For Forwarding

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kdm font problems

2009-08-01 Thread Matthew Moore
Hello, I rebooted today and noticed a font issue with the kdm login screen. The greeting and fail messages use the correct font, but the font for everything else is some ugly default font. I have tried changing the configuration in systemsettings as well as in the file /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc. kd

mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,29.Jul.09, 18:47:55, Chris Jones wrote: > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible > to view more than one message at a time - you actually have to fire up a > second instance of mutt to achieve this. The only time I *really* needed this is at compose time.

Re: Fwd: Inquiry: How to set the crontab job permanently

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
That's The Wrong Way to solve the problem. You haven't told us enough to diagnose the *real* problem. On 2009-08-01 02:57, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All We found a cure for this problem , as the followings : " - Put the System cron & the User cron inside a file , say /tmp/temp . - Add the fo

Re: compile error - missing X11 headers

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 02:49, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: After a rather lengthy break from compiling my own programs, I'm trying to build fvwm, Is the Debian repository too out-of-date? but am getting an error message: "X11 libraries or header files could not be found..." Now that Debian is using Xorg

(nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody ever seen this message? I'm getting it in my .xsession- errors and I wonder what it means? (See bug number #538879) Any help in tracking it down will be appreciated... = (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply. Po

Re: dot matrix printer unicode question

2009-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Jude, relax and take your time to read and It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered) > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer". On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > By real

compile error - missing X11 headers

2009-08-01 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
After a rather lengthy break from compiling my own programs, I'm trying to build fvwm, but am getting an error message: "X11 libraries or header files could not be found..." Now that Debian is using Xorg, I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. Comments? Glen

Fwd: Inquiry: How to set the crontab job permanently

2009-08-01 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All We found a cure for this problem , as the followings : " - Put the System cron & the User cron inside a file , say /tmp/temp . - Add the following line to your /etc/rc.local : crontab /tmp/temp - We tested it and it will not disappear even after server reboot . Regards H.Motamedi --

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 01:39, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Is that Canadian "burning hot" (80F), Arizona "burning hot" (115F, 10% humidity) or New Orleans "burning hot" (90F, 60% humidity)? I'm in canada, and it's 32C which according to google is new orleans hot but i have no idea about t